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==Early life== |
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Klaus Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, [[German Empire|Germany]], now [[Wrocław]], |
Klaus Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, [[German Empire|Germany]], now [[Wrocław]], Poland, to [[Karl Bonhoeffer]], a professor of psychiatry and neurology, and his wife Paula ([[née]] von Hase), as the third son in the [[Bonhoeffer family]]. His younger brother was the theologian [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]] (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945). |
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==Education== |
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He studied law at [[Heidelberg]] and received a doctorate for his thesis, "Workers' Committees as an Organ of the Workers' Coöperative" (''Die Betriebsräte als Organ der Betriebsgenossenschaft''). He also had further training in Berlin, at the [[University of Geneva]], and in |
As a child, he went to the ''Grunewald-[[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium]]'' in Berlin with [[Hans von Dohnanyi]]. He studied law at [[Heidelberg]] and received a doctorate for his thesis, "Workers' Committees as an Organ of the Workers' Coöperative" (''Die Betriebsräte als Organ der Betriebsgenossenschaft''). He also had further training in Berlin, at the [[University of Geneva]], and in Amsterdam. |
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==Marriage== |
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On 3 September 1930, he wed [[Emmi Bonhoeffer|Emmi Delbrück]], who was [[Hans Delbrück]]'s daughter, and [[Justus Delbrück|Justus]] and [[Max Delbrück]]'s sister. |
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==Career== |
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==World War II and death== |
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He was dedicated to [[July 20 plot|the plan]] to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944 and overthrow the government. |
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| ⚫ | In the years 1940–1944, he systematically forged contacts with various resistance groups working against the Nazi régime. Through his brother Dietrich, he had contacts with the church resistance, and through his brothers-in-law, Justus Delbrück, Dohnanyi and [[Rüdiger Schleicher]], he had many contacts in the military resistance to Hitler, especially in the circle about [[Wilhelm Canaris]] in the [[Abwehr]] of the [[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht]]. |
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Through his wife's cousin [[Ernst von Harnack]], he was connected to the social-democratic resistance. Klaus Bonhoeffer also led his colleague [[Otto John]], among others, into the resistance. He used his travel opportunities to further the cause against the Nazis. He was dedicated to [[20 July plot|the plan]] to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944 and overthrow the government. |
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| ⚫ | According to the detention book kept at the Lehrter Straße |
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| ⚫ | The only eyewitness to these murders was [[Herbert Kosney]], who managed to move his head at the last moment so that the shot meant for his neck missed.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133c/133cproj/08proj/Boehm1966Meltzer08z.htm | title=Book Essay on: Eric Boehm, We Survived: Fourteen Histories of the Hidden & the Hunted in Nazi Germany by Christopher Meltzer | publisher=Harold Marcuse | date= |
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| ⚫ | On the night of 22–23 April 1945, as [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops were already reaching Berlin's eastern outskirts, he along with Rüdiger Schleicher and other prisoners was taken by a special squad from the ''[[Reichssicherheitshauptamt|RSHA]]'' to the exhibition grounds near the Lehrter Straße prison and killed with a gunshot wound to the neck. The only eyewitness to these murders was [[Herbert Kosney]], who managed to move his head at the last moment so that the shot meant for his neck missed.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133c/133cproj/08proj/Boehm1966Meltzer08z.htm | title=Book Essay on: Eric Boehm, We Survived: Fourteen Histories of the Hidden & the Hunted in Nazi Germany by Christopher Meltzer | publisher=Harold Marcuse | date=January 3, 2009 | accessdate=November 20, 2011}}</ref> |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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* [[List of members of the |
* [[List of members of the 20 July plot]] |
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* [[German Resistance]] |
* [[German resistance to Nazism|German Resistance]] |
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* [[:de:Ernst Ludwig Heuss|Ernst Ludwig Heuss]] |
* [[:de:Ernst Ludwig Heuss|Ernst Ludwig Heuss]] |
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* [[Emmi Bonhoeffer]] |
* [[Emmi Bonhoeffer]] |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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* [http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/ Dietrich Bonhoeffer] |
* [http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/ Dietrich Bonhoeffer] – younger brother was the theologian and martyr. |
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* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BonhoefferKlaus German Historical Museum] |
* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BonhoefferKlaus German Historical Museum] |
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Klaus Bonhoeffer (5 January 1901 – 23 April 1945) was a German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime who was executed after the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
Early life
Klaus Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, Germany, now Wrocław, Poland, to Karl Bonhoeffer, a professor of psychiatry and neurology, and his wife Paula (née von Hase), as the third son in the Bonhoeffer family. His younger brother was the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945).
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As a child, he went to the Grunewald-Gymnasium in Berlin with Hans von Dohnanyi. He studied law at Heidelberg and received a doctorate for his thesis, "Workers' Committees as an Organ of the Workers' Coöperative" (Die Betriebsräte als Organ der Betriebsgenossenschaft). He also had further training in Berlin, at the University of Geneva, and in Amsterdam.
Marriage
On 3 September 1930, he wed Emmi Delbrück, who was Hans Delbrück's daughter, and Justus and Max Delbrück's sister.
Career
He worked as a lawyer and from 1935 as a legal adviser for Deutsche Luft Hansa, serving from 1937 to 1944 as chief syndic. This job took him on many business trips, even during the war.
World War II and death
In the years 1940–1944, he systematically forged contacts with various resistance groups working against the Nazi régime. Through his brother Dietrich, he had contacts with the church resistance, and through his brothers-in-law, Justus Delbrück, Dohnanyi and Rüdiger Schleicher, he had many contacts in the military resistance to Hitler, especially in the circle about Wilhelm Canaris in the Abwehr of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.
Through his wife's cousin Ernst von Harnack, he was connected to the social-democratic resistance. Klaus Bonhoeffer also led his colleague Otto John, among others, into the resistance. He used his travel opportunities to further the cause against the Nazis. He was dedicated to the plan to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944 and overthrow the government.
According to the detention book kept at the Lehrter Straße prison in Berlin, where the Gestapo had a special section for political prisoners, Bonhoeffer was arrested on 1 October 1944 and sentenced to death by the German "People's Court" (Volksgerichtshof) on 2 February 1945.
On the night of 22–23 April 1945, as Soviet troops were already reaching Berlin's eastern outskirts, he along with Rüdiger Schleicher and other prisoners was taken by a special squad from the RSHA to the exhibition grounds near the Lehrter Straße prison and killed with a gunshot wound to the neck. The only eyewitness to these murders was Herbert Kosney, who managed to move his head at the last moment so that the shot meant for his neck missed.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "Book Essay on: Eric Boehm, We Survived: Fourteen Histories of the Hidden & the Hunted in Nazi Germany by Christopher Meltzer". Harold Marcuse. January 3, 2009. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
External links
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer – younger brother was the theologian and martyr.
- Klaus Bonhoeffer in the German National Library catalogue
- German Historical Museum
- Gedenkstätte Widerstand
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